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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1889
Page
1
A popular remedy claims to purify blood and cure liver and kidney diseases with no special mention needed. It promises relief from pimples boils salt rheum malaria fevers headaches constipation and indigestion with full satisfaction or money back. Available at BK Blackwall Son's drug store for 50c and $1 per bottle.
A fragmentary verse laments the death of a beloved woman. The speaker mourns beauty and joy fading as grief fills the world, describing a desolate, starless night and a long, slowed passage of time.
The tale follows Fanny, a young woman from Mrs. Bray's house, who marries Tom Mason despite his drinking. After years of hardship, abuse, and poverty, Tom kills Fanny and their baby before dying himself, an grim caution about trusting dissipated men.
The article urges Northern migrants to move to the South for land and crops, emphasizing Southern hospitality and self policing social standards. It notes Jefferson Davis will attend Fayetteville centennial exercises on November 21, and that many ex Confederate soldiers in North Carolina long to see him again.
Reverend A C Dixon of Immanuel Tabernacle preached on The Outlook praising a brighter era with Baptist numbers rising from 50 000 at Washington inaugurations to about three million today. He noted one in twenty two people now Baptist, Rockefeller donating 600 000 to a Baptist university and endowment discussions of fifteen to twenty million dollars pending location in Chicago Washington or New York.
KR and D RR announce low round trip fares to Morehead City for the Teachers' Assembly from across North Carolina. Tickets valid June 15 to July 31, 1889, with various city rates. Assembly runs June 19 to July 2. The Atlantic Hotel hosts attendees and a North Carolina Musical Association is planned to aid teacher recruitment for music positions.
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